16 documents
e-flux Criticism
Posted: February 9, 2018
Category
Technology, Economy, Language & Linguistics, Fascism
Subjects
Freeports, Racism, Video Games
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
Double US book launch: Duty Free Art and Supercommunity
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 5, 2018
Category
Interviews & Conversations, Surveillance & Privacy, Data & Information, Technology, Museums, Utopia
Subjects
Money & Finance, Publications, Freeports
Institution
e-flux Criticism
Posted: July 28, 2017
Category
Globalization, Capitalism
Subjects
Art Market, Commodification, Freeports, Water & The Sea
# 73
Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part II
Stefan Heidenreich
Continued from “ Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I ”
Freeports are large, tax-free storage facilities that are uniquely suited to housing works of art adapted to the demands of contemporary financial markets. Because of the dominance of these markets, “freeportism” can be understood to signify the conditions of representation, production, and distribution that correspond to this dominance. The successful freeport artwork requires a strong…
e-flux Journal
Posted: May 1, 2016
Category
Philosophy
Subjects
Freeports, Post-Internet, Object-Oriented Philosophies, Materialism
# 71
Freeportism as Style and Ideology: Post-Internet and Speculative Realism, Part I
Stefan Heidenreich
Works in Wooden Boxes
The Geneva Freeport can hold up to one million artworks. Recently its facilities had to be expanded due to increasing demand. The artworks end up in wooden transport boxes, stacked in rows on shelves in huge halls, where they sit and wait for their price to rise or fall, or to be shipped to an auction or to another freeport. The air temperature measures 21 degree Celsius, with exactly 55 percent humidity. 1 These are considered ideal conditions for the survival…
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2016
Category
Technology, Economy
Subjects
Freeports, Post-Internet, Art Market, Art Collecting , Money & Finance
# 70
A Tank on a Pedestal: Museums in an Age of Planetary Civil War
Hito Steyerl
I love history.
But history doesn’t love me back,
Whenever I call her I get her answering machine.
She says: “Insert logo here.”
A tank on a pedestal. Fumes are rising from the engine. A Soviet battle tank—called IS-3 for Joseph Stalin—is being repurposed by a group of pro-Russian separatists in Konstantinovka, Eastern Ukraine. It is driven off a WWII memorial pedestal and promptly goes to war. According to a local militia, it “attacked a checkpoint in Ulyanovka,…
e-flux Journal
Posted: February 1, 2016
Category
Museums, War & Conflict
Subjects
Institutional Critique, Freeports
e-flux Criticism
Posted: December 3, 2015
Category
Aesthetics, Labor & Work, War & Conflict
Subjects
Video Art, Freeports, Post-Fordism, Money & Finance
e-flux Criticism
Posted: June 17, 2015
Subjects
Money & Finance, Art Market, Commodification, Freeports
e-flux Criticism
Posted: April 23, 2015
Category
Film
Subjects
Mass Media & Entertainment, Freeports, Art Market
# 63
Duty-Free Art
Hito Steyerl
Chapter 1: The National Museum
This is a file published in 2012 by WikiLeaks. It forms part of WikiLeaks’s Syria files database. 1 The file is called “316787_Vision Presentation—Oct 30 2010 Eng.pptx,” in PowerPoint format, dated October 2010. 2 It details Syrian First Lady Asma al-Assad’s plans for the future of Syria’s museums. Her foundation aims to establish a network of museums to promote Syria’s economic and social development and strengthen national identity and cultural pride….
e-flux Journal
Posted: March 1, 2015
Category
Contemporary Art, Museums, Economy, Data & Information, Internet
Subjects
Freeports, Money & Finance, Autonomy
e-flux Criticism
Posted: March 25, 2014
Category
Economy
Subjects
Money & Finance, Freeports, Art Market, Wealth & Inequality
e-flux journal
issue 49: Pieces of the Planet, Issue Two out now
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 8, 2013
Category
War & Conflict, Internet
Subjects
Storytelling, Authoritarianism, Freeports
Institution
# 49
Freezone: Dubai
Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, Manal Al Dowayan, Parag Khanna, and Turi Munthe
The following conversation is excerpted from FREEZONE, a discussion organized by Shumon Basar and H.G. Masters for the Global Art Forum in Dubai, March 2013. Featuring commissioned projects and research, as well as six days of live talks, the Global Art Forum brought together artists, curators, musicians, strategists, thinkers and writers under the theme of “ It Means This. ” Words and terms known and unknown were scrutinized or invented as a way of gauging the relationship between…
e-flux Journal
Posted: November 1, 2013
Category
Migration & Immigration
Subjects
Freeports, Middle East, State & Government, Statelessness
KHOJ International Artists’ Association
The KHOJ Marathon by Hans Ulrich Obrist
e-flux Announcement
Posted: January 20, 2011
Subjects
Art Market, Freeports
Institution
e-flux Announcement
Posted: November 8, 2009
Subjects
Freeports, Money & Finance
9 Essays
Compiled byFernanda Cubas Pinella
With:
Filipa Ramos, Geert Lovink, Justin McGuirk, Boris Groys, Mike Pepi, Stefan Heidenreich, Melissa Gronlund, Zach Blas
e-flux Reader
Category
Technology, Data & Information, Internet, Museums
Subjects
Freeports, Social Media, Post-Internet